My wife ask about me lasercutting a sign for some friends, but at the time she ask, our laser was still down for repairs. I remembered Ben doing a toner transfer project several years ago, so I googled it up, and it turned out to be easier than I remembered. This isn’t intended to be […]
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While we’re waiting on the “good photos” from Garrick, enjoy these two less good photos I snapped of some our members’ handiwork. As always, we had quite the turnout for this event, with several members bringing friends and family to play along. A special thanks to Sarah and Jeff for helping make it go off without
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This is just a quick and dirty spice rack I put together for my wife. It’s a piece of plywood (supported at an angle by a chunk of 2×4) with some maple cleats glued and stapled to the front. Figuring out the size and placement of the cleats took the longest (Thanks Ben and Eric),
It’s never too early to think about racing PowerWheels… #OMGFTW
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It’s been a few months now, but I’m finally getting to documenting the tool storage wall we built. I found a plan online to build some PVC drill/driver hangers, and adapted it to carry the grinder, glue gun and angle drill by their battery holders. The slanted pipes below the drills are some spare PVC
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Hey gang, it’s time again for OMG’s annual Gingerbread House event. Note that this event has no actual gingerbread (we use graham crackers) and few, if any, “houses” in the traditional sense. In the past, we’ve seen locomotives, hobbit holes and skyscrapers. This years’s event coincides with the regular meeting on December 19th. As usual,
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Just a sneak preview of an upcoming “project” at OMG… Member Ben found a great old drill at Habitat ReStore, and it spawned a conversation about torture testing various drills under extreme circumstances. As a test, we pitted Ben’s drill against one of our cordless Ryobis… More “sciencey testing” to follow. Remember, these sorts of
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This past Tuesday, Jeff Jensen, a long time friend of OMG was at our regular meeting to get some help with mechanical assembly and soldering of a dozen CEENBoT units. Jeff is part of a program that develops the CEENBoT robots for education and the program has been so successful that Jeff is overloaded with requests
A few weeks back, I caught a video on AvE’s YouTube channel of graphics drawn on an oscilloscope, given an audio input. Last week, Ben, Garrick and I decided to give it a try at OMG. According to Garrick’s research earlier that week, “older scopes” do better with this sort of thing, and OMG’s scope
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We’re going to be celebrating the Omaha Maker Group’s 7th anniversary on Tuesday, August 29th. As has become our custom, the evening will include dinner, dessert and the awarding of the annual Founders’ Prize. In addition, I’ve dug up some photos from long ago, showing not only the old space, but also our current K
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